Papers by Manli Shu
LATTE: Learning to Think with Vision Specialists (2025.emnlp-main)
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Zixian Ma, Jianguo Zhang, Zhiwei Liu, Jieyu Zhang, Juntao Tan, Manli Shu, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong, Ranjay Krishna, Silvio Savarese
| Challenge: | Open-source vision-language models excel on simple question-answering tasks, but struggle with complex questions that require both perception and reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a family of vision-language models that have LeArned to Think wiTh vision spEcialists by offloading perception to state-of-the-art vision models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves 4-5% gains over baselines across 6 benchmarks covering both perception and reasoning abilities. |